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Ch5 and Can't pay.
Channel 5, is really taking mick in keep regurgitating the same old episodes across it's network of channels and also passing off it's "specials" Showing old clips.as new.
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The same could be said for these 'on the dole' programmes they keep churning out...
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Agreed. They don't show as repeats in the TV guides but I knew I'd seen last night's episode. Be honest Ch5 and don't call them "specials"! Seems to be on nearly all year round now to. Good as it is it needs a 6 month rest.
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Agreed. They don't show as repeats in the TV guides but I knew I'd seen last night's episode. Be honest Ch5 and don't call them "specials"! Seems to be on nearly all year round now to. Good as it is it needs a 6 month rest.
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Never watched them if I am honest until last night - I thought Channel 5 was dropping the "benefits" and "can't pay" image - Channel 4 have to a degree toned down that sort of programming but Channel 5 still seems to be hammering away with it - if its not repeated on Channel 5, 5 Star its on Spike as well
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Totally agree with everything that's been said thus far
Stirring up trouble for those on benefits by showing extreme cases for the entertainment of others is unforgivable. Slyly showing repeats thinking that viewers are too unintelligent to notice puts me off watching again too. |
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This show's starting to annoy me - my parents are nearly always watching it. Wish they'd turn off the TV from time to time and do something else.
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Can't pay I'd watch it all day cracking show
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Stirring up trouble for those on benefits by showing extreme cases for the entertainment of others is unforgivable.
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C5 are guilty of this but there was something on the other night called "Slum Britain: 50 Years On" which showed a very different attitude to poverty, far from the usual 'scroungers' angle featured in C5's benefits shows. It felt more like a BBC documentary and was quite upsetting in parts.
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I was watching one of the poverty porn programs the other night and one scene really summed up how these dudes just don't understand money + budgeting.
A guy was showing off his new big TV - I saw the same model for about £900 online. Brighthouse had it on display at £1,700, but the doleman thought it was a great deal at £20 a week for 3 years. He actually thought 3 grand for a TV was fantastic. If he'd saved up and shopped around online for a slightly smaller screen, he'd have been up by about £2,600. You can't blame Brighthouse when folk are prepared to hand over their benefits. |
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They just SAID they were dropping them in response to "benefit porn" and Exloitation accusations.
They won't though because they are popular |
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C5 are guilty of this but there was something on the other night called "Slum Britain: 50 Years On" which showed a very different attitude to poverty, far from the usual 'scroungers' angle featured in C5's benefits shows. It felt more like a BBC documentary and was quite upsetting in parts.
Maybe Viacom are burning off the crap that Desmond commissioned before the sale and their new material will be more responsible?? |
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Can't Pay is a really good programme, to be fair. I wouldn't put it in the same bracket as On Benefits.
But I agree with the OP that repackaging episodes and calling them specials is poor form and will only serve to hurt the programme's popularity if people get fed up of tuning in only to discover it's one they've seen. |
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Never watched them if I am honest until last night - I thought Channel 5 was dropping the "benefits" and "can't pay" image - Channel 4 have to a degree toned down that sort of programming but Channel 5 still seems to be hammering away with it - if its not repeated on Channel 5, 5 Star its on Spike as well
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Someone from Channel 5 was on BBC Radio 4's The Media Show quite a few months ago and said that they have stopped commissioning them but they still had quite a number to show.
For me, Can Watch, Wont watch. |
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So in other words Viacom must be determined in wheeling the last lot out before anything different wil appear - saying that would it just not be easier not to show the rest? I guess the channel must show it and complete the series
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Can't Pay is a really good programme, to be fair. I wouldn't put it in the same bracket as On Benefits.
But I agree with the OP that repackaging episodes and calling them specials is poor form and will only serve to hurt the programme's popularity if people get fed up of tuning in only to discover it's one they've seen. I don't mind these specials. I just FF through the parts that I have already seen. |
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Depends if they've got anything to show in its place.
![]() ![]() I got to admit I have been watching and caught up with the "this is ....ie 1989" why they can't air this on at 8pm I don't know they seem to keep it back for Saturday Nights after 10.30pm! |
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Channel 5, is really taking mick in keep regurgitating the same old episodes across it's network of channels and also passing off it's "specials" Showing old clips.as new.
It still makes me laugh though when they give the warning... "Be prepared for confrontation and scenes of extreme violence" Why do they think I'm tuned in?
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And there never is any violence. I don't think I've ever watched one that lived up to the hype.
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Your're right. Every time I come across an episode I've seen it before.
It still makes me laugh though when they give the warning... "Be prepared for confrontation and scenes of extreme violence" Why do they think I'm tuned in? ![]() This programmme contains upsetting scenes is another and again it depends on what they mean (not just Channel 5 that does that)
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